“Are You Guys Ready? Okay. Let’s Roll.” — Remembering Todd Beamer.
On September 11, 2001, Todd Beamer boarded United Airlines Flight 93 for a business trip to San Francisco.
He was 32 years old, a husband and a father of two young boys. His wife, Lisa, was pregnant with their third child—a daughter Todd would never get the chance to meet.
After Flight 93 was hijacked, Todd attempted to call his wife using an onboard Airfone. Instead, he reached telephone operator Lisa Jefferson.
During their conversation, Todd calmly described what was happening aboard the aircraft.
As passengers learned through phone calls about the attacks in New York and Washington, they realized their own plane could be headed toward another target.
They decided they weren’t going to sit back and let that happen.
Todd and other passengers began discussing a plan to fight their way toward the cockpit. Before they acted, Todd asked Jefferson to pray with him.
Then came the words that would become forever associated with Flight 93:
“Are you guys ready? Okay. Let’s roll.”
Passengers and crew moved forward in an attempt to regain control of the aircraft.
At 10:03 a.m., Flight 93 crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, before reaching the hijackers’ intended target. All 40 passengers and crew members were killed.
Months later, Todd’s daughter Morgan was born.
She would grow up knowing her father only through photographs, stories, and the extraordinary courage he showed during his final minutes.
Todd Beamer was not alone that morning. The passengers and crew of Flight 93 acted together when they understood what was at stake.
They never made it home. But their aircraft never reached its intended target.
Remembering Todd Beamer—and all 40 passengers and crew members aboard United Flight 93.
A Christian Dearborn resident opposed naming a street after a prominent Hezbollah supporter.
Mayor Abdullah Hammoud snapped back: “You do not belong in this city, Islamophobe! Get out, you are not welcome here.”
Abdul El-Seyed and Cenk Uygur will speak alongside him next month.
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I remember watching video footage of fire fighters in the car park of one of the towers. They were immobilised by shock as they listened to the thuds of people crashing onto the roof and paving outside. There was nothing they could do to help them. All they could do was bear witness to what was happening. Most of those fire fighters then perished when the towers collapsed as they were climbing the stair wells to try to save people and put out the fires. Can you imagine how much strength it took to climb those stairwells, towards the danger, after hearing the sounds of people crashing to the ground after they chose to jump into oblivion instead of burn to death?
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Islamic scholar in Indiana:
“The best deed in Islam is to die in jihad against the infidels. All Muslims should aspire to that.”
This cancer is spreading all over America. Terrifying.